Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you. Byron Stookey, Associate Director of Advanced Standing...
Presidential adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. discussed the Alliance for Progess and commented that "our policy toward Brazil is one of prayer." Asked about the conflict in South Vietnam he answered, "I have nothing to do with South Vietnam, thank...
...Cornell is freedom," gloats one professor. "You're king of your classroom." Student life is equally free; attendance is not taken after freshman year and upper-class drinking in rooms is unrestricted. The student guidebook even recommends "sour hour" at a local tavern noted for TGIF parties ("Thank goodness it's Friday"). As in White's "godless" day, Cornell still has no religion department. As campus speakers, it welcomes not only
...fulltime "shopping analysts" also rate each salesperson's ability by filling out a secret, 60-question "Selling-Quotient-Builder" after every transaction. Were his fingernails clean? Did he try to induce the customer to trade up or to buy something else as well? What were his parting words? ("Thank you," is considered adequate. Much better: "Come in next Thursday when we're having our sale...
...Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...